Talk politics.

What is European culture, and how does it universally apply from the Atlantic to the Urals (or more precisely to Vladivostok unless those Siberian Russians turn into Asians by the magical de-Europeanizing power of the ass end of the Uural range)?

( The Bad  )

( The bad )( The Ugly )( The good )

Whatever there is of it, the USA has gained the very worst. it's gained pogroms, albeit directed at Africans and not Jews. It's gained the addiction to war and slaughter as holy virtues and donning them with Christian garb as a kind of blasphemous mockery of the concept of salvation. It's adapted white supremacy to a point so toxic it will choke itself on its deformed mutation of the earlier concepts of the civilized world. It's taken the firearms and engines of death pioneered at their greatest levels in Europe and exported them back to the old heartlands and racked up the slaughters there, and now does so worldwide.

It has the Rome addiction too, even when the American Empire is far vaster than Rome will ever be.

And again, the Russians have built a civilization atop a pyramid of skulls and the blood of serfs, but they got the Russian ballet, the best novels in any European language, and pretty palaces out of it.

What's America gotten? Southern trees bearing strange fruit and Let's Make a Deal and so many goddamned superheroes that it makes one wish Wertham really had crushed that industry.

Every foul thing that arose in Europe has been taken and warped and made ten times fouler here, and in that sense, the USA is the dark mirror that Europe made, for all the vices that contributed to a world run mad with slaughter for its own sake and the theatrics of murder have farcical and sorrowful echoes here, waiting and lurking with fangs that gleam in the light of the moon to turn on those who should be wary but are not.

So, in that sense, however one answers the question my country gets the worst bit of all of it, where other countries might be founded by people no less murderous and savage if they were settler colonialist too, but they at least seem to have managed to find people less addicted to horror for horror's sake and rewriting it as a grand virtue.